LL-L "Language acquisition" 2005.05.18 (07) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Language acquisition" 2005.05.18 (03) [E]

Oh, I forgot the first I was more or less in love with when I was very
young (14), a Turkish girl who taught me the sentence <Meliha bir kIz
güzeldir> (Meliha is a nice/beautiful girl). She lived in the village of
Axel in Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen, where we stayed with my grandmother every
Summer.
The strange thing is that I never had a Low Saxon girlfriend, except for
one Achterhoekse deerne not so very long ago, I should forget about...
The Dutch girlfriends were mostly from the South, Brabant or Limburg
Catholics... I don't know what that means, maybe they are more graceful
and beautiful to me than their Arian Nordic counterparts? I never really
fancied blondes anyway...

Ingmar

>From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
>Subject: LL-L "Language acquisition" 2005.05.17 (08) [E]
>
>Ingmar wrote:
>> You're absolutely right, Global, about the hormones, mine were triggered
>> e.a. by beauties from Hawaii, France, Austria, Hungary, Indonesia,
Angola,
>> Aruba, Bosnia, Suriname, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Russia and of course
the
>> Netherlands.
>> But should we conclude here you were in love with all three of them
>> Bontekoe cabin-boys?
>
>Hmmm... has anyone ever heard of somebody falling in love with Padde
>Kelemijn? Even though I seem to remember his name after all these years...
>replace him with Harmen, and you've got a deal. ;-)
>
>Unfortunately, besides a few obligatory Germans, I usually fell for lads
>from the British Isles - Welsh, Scots, Irish and, most of all, a Yorkshire
>man - plus a few Americans and the odd Frenchman and Dutchman. So, with
the
>exception of the Dutchman (the father of my two oldest children), I
already
>spoke the langauge. What a waste of potential! I should have diversified
>more like you did...
>
>...like a truly global moose!
>
>Gabriele Kahn

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language acquisition

Ingmar:

> a Turkish girl who taught me the sentence <Meliha bir kIz
> güzeldir> (Meliha is a nice/beautiful girl).

Hmmm ... Are you sure, Romeo?  Not _Meliha güzel (bir) kızdır_?  Or might
she have been deficient in Turkish?  (Or am I?  Yeah, sure.)

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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